Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-03-15

Prayer MeeaanGs alsIa I'm the Brosheas
with VARYING saeeess-soBe sea'
and Mere or Eess TsuehanG Incl

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Frazer meeaanGn aeaa I'm me Brothels
wiGh Varying saeeess-so@e eeas
and mere o. Less Tsuching Incl
aenss-Resuat 81 the Revival
The trade death Of Nellie FiipFen
has directed the attention Of the rell.
gious element 10 the tsopfe Of Der KIND
/ in the city. Is has resalted IN Bany ia
| cidents Of interest With reference 20
i this class. since the funeral party OF
ladies', hsaded bv Mrs.. Hsmas, the evan
Relisk, have visited all the houses o.
prostitution in the city-there are foaf
Of them Of q strictly public nature
and held prayer meetings IN each Iney
FIRST went 20 the house kept By Aoiile
RoseneranZ, on @ street It wears
badge on the outside as the Star LodE-
| ina House" NoIiie b q woman who
makes Q boast Of her business, she 70
prOad Of it, has been bred up that way.
Q WsmsR about 40 yesfs Of age. face
a. hard a. iron, and q haFsh, metallic
voice. There IL q screen about the doeE
TO protect the visitor from the public
gaze during the intsFim between the
ringing Of ths bell and the opening OF
the door. Isto this little coop the ladies
gathered on Saturday afternoon, and
ooaraee0asly rang the bell. IL was an
svered in 9 moment BY the mistress
herself. She was dressed in loose,
common gown. She planted her portly
form In the doorway snd looked the
little Rrenp over With stony eyes and
growing rage.
Bat they told her that they had come
with kind intent that they n ant to
do her good thai they simply desired,
With her permission, to sing and pray
with her and the inmates. The woman
hesitatsd Q moment aud then abruptly
turned, walked 70 the parlor door, swsng
IL epen, and ths four meek ladies fled
into 9 very well furnished room.
"THK GIRLS
Are all up stairs asleep, but will call
them down." she said, teFsely, and 30
left them.
The souLd Of few short comments
vas ell that broke the silence from up
stairs, which endured about ten min
utes, Daring which time the ladies had
full opportunity 10 survey the surround
ings-a piano, upholstered chairs, sofas,
rich hanRings, q few pictures on the wall
Of q character only excused in polite
circles under the name Of high art."
Before the ladies were prepared for
their audience there was q rustic on the
stairs, and an instant later che painted
Rosencranz stood in the doorway, dress
ed in all the maRnifcence Of q brass
band. She ushered in ave others. in
Producing each as " Miss Daisy" Miss
BIaneh," Miss Maad," etc., as they
came forward. They we're all arrayed
in silks and satins. TO the extent that
the visitors we're struck With wender
that the elaborate toilets had been 40
complished 80 quickly. Then two little
fresh faced girls were brought 10 to fill
the hearts of the pFayerful women With
dismay.
Then the RosencrAnz sat down in
perfect command Of the situation, and
told the visitors to proceed. Mrs. he
mus read from the Bible and then they
sang. Then she talked g little of the
way of life being opsn to all, and the
power to save being extern Jed even to
the uttermost, and then they knslt to
pray. Two of tbs silk clad
WOMEN KNKLT DOWN
But the OTHERS remained sitting, and the
little girls looked on in wonder. Then
they rose and the mist css of the place
saw them 10 the door and frigidly in
vited them to come again whenever they
felt like holding pray sr meeting IN her
house.
This scene vas repeated in two other
houses with siight variations. At that
of Annie Walker, where the recent
tragedy occurred, however, the audience
was more in sympathy. rbere all eB
tered into the spirit of the prayers that
were offered. and Ed. KeU nedy, the mis
tress' alleged husband, man sliRhtiy
under the medium height, largely bald
aud wearing a heavy red mustacbe, un-
deFtOok to entertain the visitors by
descanting pon some of the peculiar
features of life in saoh places; how the
inmates become addicted to the use OF
morphine and other drugs and despite
her repeated commands to stop talking
about it, be illustrated the dire effects
of repeated Infections of morphIne by
showing the blue marks 1t had caused
upoR different parts of the bed-ridden
body of Annie Walker. Then be
braHched of on another fe4ture, telling
bow yOuug girls are led away to these
places by means Of ''cappers," who
make business of keeping familiar
with the habits Of young girls, and lay
ing traps for and enticiDg them By
promises of an easy life and fine
clothes to enter such places and, once
there, there was no retreat. He said
that every young girl in the city who in
any way made herself liable to suspicion
was continually watched b. these
cAPPERs
Annie Walker here joined in the con-
versstion by saying that she was more
honorable in her mode of conducting
the business than the othsrs;" that "the
others" often took young girls and
trained them up TO this life; that often
they found places for them, while quite
young, to serve in families, etc only to
make OF them Just such as now filed
her house, when mature. She said she
did not DO that, bat said that frtquently
she had taken girls Who we're poor aud
unable to make living and clothed aud
cared for them, and that they had re
manned with her there; that some OF
these who professed desire &c lead q
proper life she had found employment
fer, bat that, fascinated by the fue
clothes, etc.. these had in nearly every
instance returned.
They told the ladies of an incident
that had taken place while the body Of
Mollie Flippen lay in the coffin. A NO
man Who bad bat few weeks seC guar
relied With her husband. broke ~ house.
keeping, separated from him, and had
rented rooms on Pacific Avenue, where
she began life such a. tbey led. Ibis
woman bad known Mollie Flippen aOd
| bearing Of her death hsd come 10 see
/ her, and while looking at the Scared
face in the coffin bad .risd: This is the
woman who committed q murder IN
Portland. and, my God have started
toward the same endf
In their round OF these places one OF
the ladies encountered
YOUNG GIRL
Wha had been a bright member of her
Sunday school class bat fev moRths
before. Their mutual recognition was
followed by an effsc'lng scene, but the
mistress of the house i'd that the Eirls
father had taken her from the place sew
eral times bat thai she had always
promptly returned.
A dresansker on Pacific avenue states
that a Rirl--an inmate OF one OF these
places-for whom she had made many